Journal

What does Vulnerability really mean? For me it’s a quality of being that is gentle, that doesn’t harden and contract from life. When we are uncomfortable and our reactions are coming up, when there is strong emotion, vulnerability allows feeling this, being fragile, being delicate with ourselves.

Letting the feelings be, without getting caught up in them, but also without trying to take ourselves away from them. To stay in our body. At a somatic level letting our body stay...

In the process of endeavouring to heal ourselves and create a way of living authentically, a playful approach can create more fluidity, innovation and ultimately allow for more growth. So often we approach our own healing with a to-do mentality.

We come from a culture so embedded in productivity, outcome, stimulation and doing – that it can feel uncomfortable to allow a mindset of willingness to fall or not know what to do, to be vulnerable, to ‘get it wrong.’ Yet...

In facing challenges, our protective layers come up in abundance. Whether it is day to day stress or a big event that really throws our balance and rhythm, we can easily feel lost in emotions and reactions that come up. This is often when our unhelpful patterns are reinstated, and surface with an aggressive pull to return to the familiar, what’s comfortable, what’s numbing or distracting.

But if we can take even a little bit of space from the momentum of what’s going...

If we think of the potential and infinite complexity of our human body it serves as a wonderfully accurate mirror for the human psyche. Both have universal attributes that connect us as similar beings, yet each is so unique there are never two the same. Whilst we can learn so much from those who have lived before us and with us, we also have to learn where we are different, and need to tailor approaches to life for our own situation – our physical and psychological profiles....

As published in Groupsnet Journal October 2012.

The value of body-awareness work with eating disorder clients 

The suffering of an eating disorder can be a very painful physical experience, but the foremost catalyst for the illness, and the fuel that perpetuates it – is very much in cognitive processing. Many sufferers are high achieving, perfectionistic, self-critical, ambitious, sensitive and worriers. Having thought and analysed their experiences for much of life, a...